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Data Integrity for AI: What’s Old is New Again

Precisely

The goal of this post is to understand how data integrity best practices have been embraced time and time again, no matter the technology underpinning. In the beginning, there was a data warehouse The data warehouse (DW) was an approach to data architecture and structured data management that really hit its stride in the early 1990s.

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Fast Analytics On Semi-Structured And Structured Data In The Cloud

Data Engineering Podcast

Summary The process of exposing your data through a SQL interface has many possible pathways, each with their own complications and tradeoffs. One of the recent options is Rockset, a serverless platform for fast SQL analytics on semi-structured and structured data.

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How Apache Iceberg Is Changing the Face of Data Lakes

Snowflake

Data storage has been evolving, from databases to data warehouses and expansive data lakes, with each architecture responding to different business and data needs. Traditional databases excelled at structured data and transactional workloads but struggled with performance at scale as data volumes grew.

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Microsoft Fabric vs. Snowflake: Key Differences You Need to Know

Edureka

The alternative, however, provides more multi-cloud flexibility and strong performance on structured data. Its multi-cluster shared data architecture is one of its primary features. Ideal for: Fabric makes the administration of data lakes much simpler; Snowflake provides flexible options for using external lakes.

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How HomeToGo Is Building a Robust Clickstream Data Architecture with Snowflake, Snowplow and dbt

Snowflake

Once the data is in the warehouse, we are leveraging Snowflake’s data warehousing features to handle it. Something that is especially handy is Snowflake’s support for semi-structured data.

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What is an AI Data Engineer? 4 Important Skills, Responsibilities, & Tools

Monte Carlo

Key Differences Between AI Data Engineers and Traditional Data Engineers While traditional data engineers and AI data engineers have similar responsibilities, they ultimately differ in where they focus their efforts.

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A Prequel to Data Mesh

Towards Data Science

When I heard the words ‘decentralised data architecture’, I was left utterly confused at first! In my then limited experience as a Data Engineer, I had only come across centralised data architectures and they seemed to be working very well. So what was missing?